Search Results - "Almerigi, Jason B."

Factors Correlated with Violent Video Game Use by Adolescent Boys and Girls by Olson, Cheryl K., S.D, Kutner, Lawrence A., Ph.D, Warner, Dorothy E., Ph.D, Almerigi, Jason B., Ph.D, Baer, Lee, Ph.D, Nicholi, Armand M., M.D, Beresin, Eugene V., M.D

“…Abstract Purpose To compare the video and computer game play patterns of young adolescent boys and girls, including factors correlated with playing violent…”
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Are only infants held more often on the left? If so, why? Testing the attention-emotion hypothesis with an infant, a vase, and two chimeric tests, one "emotional," one not by Harris, Lauren Julius, Cárdenas, Rodrigo A., Stewart, Nathaniel D., Almerigi, Jason B.

“…Most adults, especially women, hold infants and dolls but not books or packages on the left side. One reason may be that attention is more often leftward in…”
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Positive Youth Development, Participation in Community Youth Development Programs, and Community Contributions of Fifth-Grade Adolescents: Findings From the First Wave Of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development by Lerner, Richard M., Lerner, Jacqueline V., Almerigi, Jason B., Theokas, Christina, Phelps, Erin, Gestsdottir, Steinunn, Naudeau, Sophie, Jelicic, Helena, Alberts, Amy, Ma, Lang, Smith, Lisa M., Bobek, Deborah L., Richman-Raphael, David, Simpson, Isla, Christiansen, Elise DiDenti, von Eye, Alexander

“…The 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD), a longitudinal investigation of a diverse sample of 1,700 fifth graders and 1,117 of their parents, tests…”
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Is maternal depression related to side of infant holding? by Weatherill, Robin P., Almerigi, Jason B., Levendosky, Alytia A., Bogat, G. Anne, Von Eye, Alexander, Harris, Lauren Julius

“…Studies show that 65–85% of mothers hold their infants on the left side of their own body and that this left-bias may be reduced or reversed when mothers have…”
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Probing the human brain with stimulating electrodes: The story of Roberts Bartholow’s (1874) experiment on Mary Rafferty by Harris, Lauren Julius, Almerigi, Jason B.

“…Roberts Bartholow’s 1874 experiment on Mary Rafferty is widely cited as the first demonstration, by direct application of stimulating electrodes, of the motor…”
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Conceptualizing and Modeling Individual and Ecological Asset Components of Thriving in Early Adolescence by Theokas, Christina, Almerigi, Jason B., Lerner, Richard M., Dowling, Elizabeth M., Benson, Peter L., Scales, Peter C., von Eye, Alexander

“…Using two randomly selected separate subsamples of 50,000 middle or high school students drawn from the 1999 to 2000 Search Institute Profiles of Student Life…”
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Why are infants held on the left? A test of the attention hypothesis with a doll, a book, and a bag by Harris, Lauren Julius, Cárdenas, Rodrigo Andrés, Spradlin, Michael P., Almerigi, Jason B.

“…Most adults, especially women, hold infants and objects representing infants, such as dolls, preferentially on the left side. The attention hypothesis credits…”
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Mothers' and fathers' lateral biases for holding their newborn infants: A study of images from the World Wide Web by Julius Harris, Lauren, Spradlin, Michael P., Almerigi, Jason B.

“…Photographic and direct-observation studies show that most adults hold infants on the left side. This basic directional effect is well established, but other…”
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Aesthetic preferences for direction of bias in artistic depictions of mothers holding infants by Harris, Lauren J., Cardenas, Rodrigo A., Spradlin, Michael J., Almerigi, Jason B.

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Adults' preferences for side-of-hold as portrayed in paintings of the Madonna and Child by Harris, Lauren Julius, Cárdenas, Rodrigo Andrés, Spradlin, Michael P., Almerigi, Jason B.

“…Most women hold infants on their left side. They do the same when depicted in works of art. Does the latter accurately reflect the real-life bias, the artist's…”
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Most Adults Show Opposite-Side Biases in the Imagined Holding of Infants and Objects by ALMERIGI, Jason B, CARBARY, Timothy J, HARRIS, Lauren Julius

“…Three hundred university undergraduates were asked to imagine holding in their arms first an object (either an "expensive vase" or an "old shoebox") and then a…”
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Individual and Ecological Assets and Thriving Among African American Adolescent Male Gang and Community-Based Organization Members: A Report From Wave 3 of the “Overcoming the Odds” Study by Taylor, Carl S., Smith, Pamela R., Taylor, Virgil A., von Eye, Alexander, Lerner, Richard M., Balsano, Aida Bilalbegovic, Anderson, Pamela M., Banik, Rumeli, Almerigi, Jason B.

“…The third wave of the Overcoming the Odds longitudinal study involves data about individual and ecological developmental assets and thriving among African…”
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Task Difficulty Reduces the Left Visual Hemispace Bias for Judgments of Emotion in Chimeric Faces by CARBARY, Timothy J, ALMERIGI, Jason B, HARRIS, Lauren Julius

“…A prior study (Carbary, Almerigi, & Harris, 2001) of adults' judgments of emotional chimeric faces showed that the left visual hemispace (LVH) bias normally…”
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The left visual hemispace bias for the perception of chimeric faces: A further test of the difficulty of discrimination hypothesis by Carbary, T J, Almerigi, J B, Harris, L J

“…When people make judgments of visual-spatial forms, they generally perform better if the information is presented in their left visual hemispace (LVH), whereas…”
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Positive Youth Development A View of the Issues by Lerner, Richard M., Almerigi, Jason B., Theokas, Christina, Lerner, Jacqueline V.

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Left-side infant holding: A test of the hemispheric arousal -attentional hypothesis by Harris, Lauren Julius, Almerigi, Jason B., Carbary, Timothy J., Fogel, Travis G.

“…When asked to hold a young infant in their arms, most adults hold on the left side (Harris, 1997). In a prior study, we found the same bias when we asked…”
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Side preference in adults for holding infants: contributions of sex and handedness in a test of imagination by Harris, L J, Almerigi, J B, Kirsch, E A

“…Five hundred one right-handers (150 men, 351 women) and 53 left-handers (15 men, 38 women) were asked to imagine holding a young infant in their arms…”
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Positive youth development, participation in community youth development programs, and community contributions of fifth grade adolescents: Findings from the first wave by Lerner, Richard M, Lerner, Jacqueline V, Almerigi, Jason B, Theokas, Christina

“…The 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD), a longitudinal investigation of a diverse sample of 1,700 fifth graders and 1,117 of their parents, tests…”
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The Contribution of Postural Bias to Lateral Preferences for Holding Human Infants by ERBER, Nicholaus Lee, ALMERIGI, Jason B, CARBARY, Timothy J, HARRIS, Lauren Julius

“…When asked to hold an infant, 60-85% of adults hold on their left, so that the infant's head is to the left of their midline (Brüser, 1981; de Chateau, 1983;…”
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The left visual hemispace bias for the perception of composite faces: A test of the difficulty-of-discrimination hypothesis by CARBARY, T. J, ALMERIGI, J. B, HARRIS, L. J

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